AVAtlas is an extension to ArcView GIS which provides all the tools necessary
to create a printed atlas (sometimes called a map book) within ArcView.

ArcView's cartographic tools were designed to create very sophisticated
individual maps. AVAtlas was designed around the concept of an atlas.
However, AVAtlas does much more than just break up a map onto multiple
pages. It handles all the details necessary for creating a true multi-page
document just like your standard word processor will.

AVAtlas adds a new type of document to ArcView called an Atlas.
An Atlas is similar to Layout with the following differences:

1. An Atlas document can have multiple sections. A section
is group of pages in your atlas that display similar things.
For example, if you were developing a street atlas, the pages
displaying the street maps would be one section while the street
name index would be another.

An Atlas Frame is how you display parts of your View in and
Atlas (similar to a Layout's View Frame). However, unlike a
View Frame, an Atlas Frame knows how to break the map onto
multiple pages using the contents of a special polygon theme
called the Index Theme. For example if
your Index Theme is breaking your View into 20 pages, the Atlas
Frame will make the Section 20 pages long.

Atlas Key Frame

An Atlas Key Frame is used to create key maps. For example,
you might want a map of the entire United States at the beginning
of your Atlas showing the page number where each state can be found.
An Atlas Key Frame was designed for this purpose.

Atlas Locator Frame

An Atlas Locator Frame shows you which part of the overall map is
being displayed on the current page. For example, if you create
an atlas of U.S. States, you might want a small map of the entire
United States on each page highlighting the location of the state
that is currently being displayed. An Atlas Locator Frame is
designed for this purpose.

Atlas Text Frame

An Atlas Text Frame is used to create dynamic text on the pages of an
Atlas. For example, if each page of an Atlas is showing a unique section,
township and range, you may want to create a text box that shows what the
section, township and range values are on each page of the atlas. If you
have this information in your Index Theme, you can use the Atlas Text Frame
to create a text box that dynamically lists this information from page to page.

Atlas Section Index Frame and Atlas Page Index Frame

A Index Frames are used to create indexes of features on your map pages.
For example, if you are creating a road atlas, you may wish to have a listing
of where each road can be found in the atlas (for example, First Street….Page 2 B-4).
Depending on how many listings there are, a Section Index Frame can occupy
one or more pages.

3. Some Atlas frame types know how to print over multiple pages.
This allows you to very easily define a single page of a section
and then let AVAtlas create all the other pages of that section.

4. An Atlas document knows how to handle all the issues related to
creating a multi-page document such as page numbering,
and two-sided printing.

Printing and exporting functions are disabled on the demonstration versions. Then if you decide you like AVAtlas,
purchase a Registered Copy of version 1.x ($549.00) or
version 2.x ($899.00) and receive a fully functional
version of AVAtlas.